Knowledge isn't enough

1:30 PM,
May 6, 2013

Written by

Harold Littleton
OPINION

We have accumulated a vast amount of knowledge in our human experience. Knowledge enables day-to-day living and the development of those things that enhance and improve the quality of living. We build machines to make life easier and improve medical data to fight disease and improve the quality of our lives. Knowledge is wonderful, but it is not enough.

What we do with our knowledge, our data, our information is critical and essential to consider in the equation of living. When Einstein "understood" the meaning of his knowledge for the development of atomic energy and military use, he became ...